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Charlotte Hardwick – Finding a Way to Be Here: Nourishment and Restoration

By thehealingplacepodcast | May 8, 2026

I so very much enjoyed learning from Charlotte Hardwick, owner of Flow and Nourish and author. Please join us as we discuss:

her studies at the Integrative Institute of Nutrition in New York
working with food and yoga together
nourishing the organs, systems, glands, and the Vagus nerve
the inspiration behind her book Finding a Way to Be Here
using yoga to re-set the nervous system
the somatics of yoga
Vagus nerve and inflammation
tapping into the parasympathetic nervous system
cortisol and restorative classes
what she means by “crowding out” and “primary foods”
and so much more!

Welcome to The Healing Place Podcast! I am your host, Teri Wellbrock. You can listen in on Pandora, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Deezer, Amazon Music, and more, or directly on my website at www.teriwellbrock.com/podcasts/. You can also catch our insightful interview on YouTube.

Bio:

**Charlotte Hardwick**

*working with charlotte, we learn grace around our health, our diet, and the way we feel about our bodies.*

charlotte has 20+ years experience developing wellness and life-balance programming and workshops, along with counseling in-home and in partner studios for individuals, families, and organizations across the country.

charlotte offers a proven practice built upon her studies around the world, including MA degrees in nutrition, early childhood development, and over 100 dietary theories with leading health and wellness experts.

charlotte’s teachers include dr. andrew weil, director of the arizona center for integrative medicine; dr. deepak chopra, leader in the field of mind-body medicine; dr. david katz, director of Yale University’s Prevention Research Center; dr. walter willett, chair of nutrition at harvard university; and many other innovative researchers and doctors at the integrative institute of nutrition in new york.

Website: https://www.flowandnourish.com/

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Dr. Stephen Porges – Polyvagal-Informed Approaches to Healing

By thehealingplacepodcast | March 11, 2022

I feel honored (the trauma-recovery geek in me was doing a happy dance!) to have had this opportunity to sit down with Dr. Stephen Porges, PhD, researcher, author, speaker, and Polyvagal Institute founding member. Please join us as we discuss:

Dr. Porge’s insights on the vagus nerve, Polyvagal Theory, and its critical importance in trauma recovery
his role as a distinguished university scientist at Indiana University where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium
his philosophies on threat reactions and the impact of trauma on the nervous system
his recently released book, Polyvagal Safety: Attachment, Communication, Self-Regulation
and so much more!

Welcome to The Healing Place Podcast! I am your host, Teri Wellbrock. You can listen in on Pandora, iTunes, Blubrry, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Deezer, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, and more, or directly on my website at www.teriwellbrock.com/podcasts/. You can also catch soundbites of our insightful interview on YouTube.

Bio:

“Stephen W. Porges, Ph.D. is Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium. He is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, and Professor Emeritus at both the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland. He served as president of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences and is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award. He has published more than 400 peer-reviewed papers across several disciplines including anesthesiology, biomedical engineering, critical care medicine, ergonomics, exercise physiology, gerontology, neurology, neuroscience, obstetrics, pediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, psychometrics, space medicine, and substance abuse. In 1994 he proposed the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that links the evolution of the mammalian autonomic nervous system to social behavior and emphasizes the importance of physiological state in the expression of behavioral problems and psychiatric disorders. The theory is leading to innovative treatments based on insights into the mechanisms mediating symptoms observed in several behavioral, psychiatric, and physical disorders.

He is the author of The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation (Norton, 2011), The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe, (Norton, 2017), co-editor of Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Emergence of Polyvagal-Informed Therapies (Norton, 2018) and author of Polyvagal Safety: Attachment, Communication, Self-Regulation (Norton 2021). Dr. Porges is the creator of a music-based intervention, the Safe and Sound Protocol ™ (SSP), which is used by therapists to improve social engagement, language processing, and state regulation, as well as to reduce hearing sensitivities.”

** Visit Dr. Porge’s websites: https://www.polyvagalinstitute.org/ or https://www.stephenporges.com/